Architecture Quote by David Adjaye Download Open image “For me, architecture is a social act.” — David Adjaye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Social
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof Copy Share Image
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality.… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me to see… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce.… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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